Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks
On Tuesday 26 Jun 2012 10:47:50 Claudius Hubig wrote:
> If you do luksAddKey, you’ll have to enter one of the old
> passphrases. After that, you can try unlocking the volume with the
> new passphrase. If that succeeds, you can use luksKillSlot to remove
> the first slot.
luksDelKey or luksKillSlot ?
I don't yet understand the relationship between them, nor when it is necessary
to "kill a key slot".
> I did this several times without problems, although I would suggest
> unmounting the filesystem and closing the device.
Um ... I'd have to be in single-user mode then I guess ... assuming there's
even enough software in /boot (and/or the initramfs) to fiddle with unmounted
encrypted root filesystems.
Cheers
Nick
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